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Prison Service Annual Report and Accounts 2001–02 (Erratum)

Hilary Benn: Due to an error, the expenditure figures reported in appendix 2 of the Prison Service annual report and accounts for 2001–02 (HC 957) are incorrect.
	Amended expenditure, cost per place and cost per prisoner figures are given in the table.
	
		
			  Expenditure 2001–02 £ Cost PerPlace £ Cost Per Prisoner £  
		
		
			 Acklington 12,306,951 15,738 16,459  
			 Albany 9,638,824 21,612 21,853  
			 Altcourse 30,595,345 49,695 37,029  
			 Ashfield 12,542,677 30,817 33,314  
			 Ashwell 7,977,359 16,465 20,204  
			 Askham Grange 2,802,068 21,029 22,431  
			 Aylesbury 10,900,371 26,077 31,466  
			 Bedford 8,449,674 23,819 20,414  
			 Belmarsh 30,948,620 38,702 36,608  
			 Birmingham 16,696,491 23,173 19,839  
			 Blakenhurst 9,672,424 14,950 11,540  
			 Blantyre House 2,490,332 20,753 21,315  
			 Blundeston 9,982,610 24,568 24,074  
			 Brinsford 12,069,795 25,304 26,767  
			 Bristol 17,134,205 35,063 29,872  
			 Brixton 19,503,711 29,960 25,756  
			 Brockhill 5,643,993 34,000 36,729  
			 Buckley Hall 6,696,946 19,134 20,469  
			 Bullingdon 15,178,114 19,648 17,073  
			 Bullwood Hall 5,623,916 31,244 33,693  
			 Camp Hill 10,096,506 20,991 19,231  
			 Canterbury 6,268,130 31,657 21,955  
			 Cardiff 13,370,996 25,521 20,800  
			 Castington 11,168,010 24,278 37,740  
			 Channings Wood 11,238,889 18,921 19,108  
			 Chelmsford 11,573,580 25,834 24,770  
			 Coldingley 7,909,234 21,338 21,754  
			 Cookham Wood 3,576,878 29,807 24,264  
			 Dartmoor 14,631,698 21,438 24,369  
			 Deerbolt 9,711,053 20,487 23,968  
			 Doncaster 18,369,239 23,825 17,028  
			 Dorchester 5,726,272 33,292 23,785  
			 Dover 6,728,429 21,292 33,600  
			 Downview 7,158,940 25,334 35,572  
			 Drake Hall 5,694,213 18,309 24,784  
			 Durham 22,550,479 35,290 32,303  
			 East Sutton Park 2,198,632 23,390 23,705  
			 Eastwood Park 7,352,500 24,924 23,403  
			 Elmley 15,151,353 19,858 16,523  
			 Erlestoke 6,191,130 18,991 19,398  
			 Everthorpe 7,959,428 18,172 18,446  
			 Exeter 10,282,669 32,033 21,467  
			 Featherstone 12,549,693 20,951 21,337  
			 Feltham 24,346,837 28,915 37,471  
			 Ford 6,271,678 12,518 15,260  
			 Forest Bank 19,522,324 24,403 23,243  
			 Foston Hall 5,299,241 25,611 27,422  
			 Frankland 24,550,210 37,596 38,480  
			 Full Sutton 23,541,026 39,040 39,827  
			 Garth 12,879,054 20,346 21,016  
			 
			 Gartree 8,886,522 24,280 31,522  
			 Glen Parva 16,615,880 25,024 21,642  
			 Gloucester 7,417,888 31,432 25,869  
			 Grendon 11,293,398 22,177 25,345  
			 Guys Marsh 8,103,303 16,639 15,928  
			 Haslar 2,847,598 17,797 19,526  
			 Hatfield 4,116,132 22,867 24,428  
			 Haverigg 9,638,719 17,398 17,955  
			 Hewell Grange 3,018,642 15,681 18,022  
			 High Down 17,266,744 26,605 24,374  
			 Highpoint 16,860,131 19,159 20,056  
			 Hindley 13,429,476 24,935 30,032  
			 Hollesley Bay 12,625,347 27,269 37,678  
			 Holloway 20,210,798 39,668 41,622  
			 Holme House 16,789,328 18,524 17,891  
			 Hull 13,824,391 23,425 24,056  
			 Huntercombe 9,984,812 27,736 30,628  
			 Kingston 4,748,471 24,603 26,102  
			 Kirkham 10,642,725 18,445 22,226  
			 Kirklevington 2,806,220 15,335 16,355  
			 Lancaster 5,718,902 23,829 25,268  
			 Lancaster Farms 11,715,333 23,620 23,478  
			 Latchmere House 3,052,466 15,748 17,842  
			 Leeds 23,291,510 30,015 18,876  
			 Leicester 8,204,348 37,837 23,989  
			 Lewes 9,985,425 20,589 21,672  
			 Leyhill 8,585,073 20,939 22,592  
			 Lincoln 11,655,841 25,561 22,666  
			 Lindholme 15,386,512 23,635 24,941  
			 Littlehey 10,376,197 16,629 16,653  
			 Liverpool 25,565,332 21,163 18,957  
			 Long Lartin 20,122,537 33,594 47,431  
			 Low Newton 7,547,572 30,393 27,454  
			 Lowdham Grange 12,694,649 25,188 25,667  
			 Maidstone 10,405,357 18,625 27,607  
			 Manchester 26,037,371 27,350 22,245  
			 Moorland 15,006,469 20,279 19,625  
			 Morton Hall 4,821,307 25,111 27,265  
			 Mount 11,565,509 16,405 15,896  
			 New Hall 10,405,367 31,821 28,731  
			 North Sea Camp 3,738,139 16,763 19,369  
			 Northallerton 5,080,145 33,385 26,164  
			 Norwich 14,164,851 25,534 19,509  
			 Nottingham 10,413,672 23,757 20,786  
			 Onley 13,504,211 21,100 24,617  
			 Parc 28,811,957 35,266 32,237  
			 Parkhurst 12,434,863 25,798 28,450  
			 Pentonville 22,239,323 24,793 19,136  
			 Portland 11,313,801 22,097 23,949  
			 Preston 13,192,099 30,614 23,816  
			 Ranby 12,851,506 18,012 17,623  
			 Reading 6,761,178 34,019 28,700  
			 Risley 16,393,281 19,899 20,462  
			 Rochester 8,790,555 20,864 35,686  
			 Rye Hill 14,567,327 24,279 24,635  
			 Send 4,609,307 20,951 21,315  
			 Shepton Mallet 4,833,094 25,304 29,470  
			 Shrewsbury 6,518,034 35,264 19,762  
			 Stafford 10,624,651 16,945 17,201  
			 Standford Hill 7,308,028 19,031 21,106  
			 Stocken 9,454,466 17,004 16,493  
			 Stoke Heath 13,554,911 22,445 25,959  
			 Styal 10,894,273 26,442 25,375  
			 Sudbury 7,606,310 14,712 15,213  
			 Swaleside 13,493,143 17,953 17,933  
			 Swansea 7,511,933 30,787 28,920  
			 Swinfen Hall 7,445,594 23,322 23,883  
			 Thorn Cross 7,359,861 23,291 33,671  
			 Usk 6,805,526 27,132 21,016  
			 Verne 9,534,353 17,272 16,823  
			 Wakefield 19,914,099 26,695 35,688  
			 Wandsworth 25,450,136 22,070 18,735  
			 Wayland 9,928,885 16,014 15,821  
			 Wealstun 10,870,434 17,200 17,990  
			 Weare 7,340,016 18,350 19,478  
			 Wellingborough 9,133,034 17,631 18,163  
			 Werrington 5,058,625 38,962 41,778  
			 Wetherby 8,594,400 23,873 26,438  
			 Whatton 4,877,528 17,736 18,048  
			 Whitemoor 22,611,769 44,687 56,837  
			 Winchester 11,907,739 27,125 20,498  
			 Wolds 8,642,518 24,007 21,665  
			 Woodhill 22,103,665 32,649 32,807  
			 Wormwood Scrubs 23,256,552 19,424 22,778  
			 Wymott 14,929,816 18,455 18,897  
		
	
	An erratum to the Prison Service annual report and accounts2001–02 will be placed in the Library.

Human Trafficking

Beverley Hughes: I am pleased to announce new measures to support female victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation in the UK.
	The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum (NIA) Act 2002, introduced a new offence that commenced on 10 February 2003 of "trafficking a person for the purpose of controlling him or her in prostitution."
	From today, safe accommodation and a range of services will be provided to support female victims of human trafficking through a non-governmental organisation. A six-month pilot scheme located in London will cater for approximately 25 women, on a rolling basis, who meet the criteria for access to the services, including a willingness to come forward and co-operate with the authorities in the combating of international organised crime that could lead to prosecutions of criminals.
	We will consider, in light of individual circumstances, whether it would be appropriate to allow such victims who have co-operated to remain here. Where they are to return home, we will assist them to do so, providing them with initial counselling, ensuring that they have suitable accommodation to return to, and providing help to enable them to re-integrate into their own community and find employment.
	We are also publishing a new "best practice toolkit" for the police, immigration officers and others who deal with illegal immigrants and trafficking victims. The toolkit will help them to identify victims and to provide practical advice on how to deal with them appropriately.
	The Sexual Offences Bill, introduced into the House of Lords on 28 January 2003 also proposes new comprehensive offences of trafficking for sexual exploitation to replace the stop-gap offence introduced by the NIA Act 2002 of Trafficking in Prostitution. These new offences tackle the movement of people into, within and out of the UK for the purposes of sexual exploitation, and will carry maximum penalties of 14 years imprisonment. The offence relating to trafficking within the UK applies equally to UK nationals trafficked from place to place in the UK, and to foreign nationals brought here and then moved around from place to place within the UK. This is the first time that the trafficking of UK nationals within the UK has been tackled in legislation.
	Internationally, we are committed to addressing the issue of trafficking by our involvement with the EU Framework Decision on combating the trafficking of human beings, and the UN protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking. I believe the trafficking provisions in this Bill meet the requirements of the EU decision, and the UN Protocol and indeed go further in that they criminalise trafficking for a sexual offence per se, whereas the protocol specifies it ought to be criminal only in certain circumstances, for example, where forcer, coercion or abduction are involved.
	They also go further than the provisions in the NIA Act in specifying that it will be a criminal offence to traffic someone for the purposes of submitting them to a sex offence, rather than limiting this to trafficking them for the purposes of exploiting their prostitution. This allows us to offer greater protection against all forms of sexual trafficking, for example, for those who are trafficked in order to be sexually assaulted by others where there is no prostitution taking place.
	In addition the Bill introduces new offences to tackle directly the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The activities that the offences cover include buying the sexual services of a child, causing or encouraging a child into commercial sexual exploitation, facilitating the commercial sexual exploitation of a child, and controlling the activities of a child involved in prostitution. The maximum penalties available for these offences will range from seven years to life imprisonment depending upon the nature of the offence committed and the age of the child victim.
	All these provisions together, will set in place a comprehensive framework of robust legislation and improved support that will enable us both to bear down on perpetrators, often organised criminals, and provide a better response to victims.

HEALTH

National Health Service Charges

David Lammy: We have today laid before the House regulations to increase National Health Service charges in England from 1 April 2003. There will be a cash increase in the prescription charge of 10p from £6.20 to £6.30 for each quantity of a drug or appliance dispensed.
	The cost of prescription pre-payment certificates will rise to £32.90 for a 4 month certificate and £90.40 for an annual certificate. These offer savings for those needing more than five items in four months or 14 in one year.
	Prescription charges are expected to raise some £446 million for the NHS in 2003–2004.
	Charges for elastic stockings and tights, wigs and fabric supports supplied through the Hospital Service will be increased similarly.
	The maximum patient charge for a single course of dental treatment begun on or after 1 April 2003 will increase from £366 to £372.
	The prescription charge increase is the same as in the previous four years and is well below the current level of inflation. The other increases are in line with this percentage increase.
	Optical voucher values will increase overall by 2.5 per cent., to help children, people on low income and certain people with complex sight problems with the cost of spectacles or contact lenses.
	A summary of these changes is given in the table.
	Details of the revised charges and optical voucher values have been placed in the Library.
	NHS charges and optical voucher values in Scotland and Wales are a matter for the devolved Administrations. Whilst the institutions in Northern Ireland are dissolved, responsibility rests with Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office.
	
		Summary table—new NHS charges from 1 April 2003
		
			 Item Charges from1 April 2002 (£) Charges from1 April 2002 (£) 
		
		
			 Prescription Charge 6.20 6.30 
			 4 months PPC 32.40 32.90 
			 12 months PPC 89.00 90.40 
			 Surgical Bra 20.90 21.20 
			 Spinal/abdominal Support 31.50 32.00 
			 Wig Acrylic 51.50 52.30 
			 Wig Partial Human Hair 135.90 138.00 
			 Wig Full Human Hair 198.60 201.70 
			 Maximum Dental Charge 366.00 372.00

CABINET OFFICE

Civil Servants (Local Elections Guidance)

Douglas Alexander: I have today placed in the Libraries of the House copies of the guidance that has been issued to civil servants in UK Departments on their role and conduct in the forthcoming election campaigns in Scotland and Wales and the local elections in England.